Testimony of Healing July 9, 1904 Issue

In Science and Health we read, "Until the advancing...

M. C.

In Science and Health we read, "Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better to leave surgery, and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while you confine yourself chiefly to mental reconstruction and the prevention of inflammation" (p. 401). In the following case, however, the adjustment came so quickly there was not time to call a surgeon.

Two years ago, while out coasting with a party of young people, my son became the subject of a painful accident. He came home limping and said he had broken his toe. While he was undressing his foot, I was realizing as best I could the perfect, indestructible idea of Truth. On examination he said, "It was broken, but it is set." In passing him I glanced at the foot which was so swollen that it seemed nearly round. I continued treating him at intervals during the evening, and he said he suffered little or no pain. The next morning he found that an overshoe fitted that foot better than the regular shoe, so went to the office wearing one. In the evening when he came home he had on a close fitting felt slipper, and the next morning he wore his shoe, although limping very perceptibly. At the end of three days it was healed.

But that is not all. The work was done so quickly, and I did not "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health, p. 392), so error whispered. "It may be that the bone was not broken." I did not silence the tempter, and after a while the suggestion was, "I don't believe that bone was broken," and because of this I had my work to do over again. It seemed that mortal mind had to be be satisfied on this point.

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